Re: iBook and playing DVDs
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:33, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On May 16 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > The problem is that the XVideo extension is very simple (it was
> > basically designed to display single images with colorspace
> > conversion and scaling, nothing more),
>
> Which means it was not meant really for videos in the sense of
> a sequence of frames?
I wouldn't say it wasn't meant for that, but I think the things we worry
about today were far from possible when it was conceived.
> > Things are probably better with XvMC.
>
> But will it depend on the idct and mc specifications of the
> chips?
No, XvMC was originally designed for that but it also supports
non-accelerated surfaces.
In contrast, Xv definitely can't take advantage of those chip features;
XvMC is a must for that.
> If yes, then it would probably be a problem with the r128,
> right?
The problem right now is that there's no XvMC driver for r128 yet.
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